Wed 2/12 @ 7:30PM
The Cleveland Museum of Art continues to celebrate the Art of the Violin with young Taiwan-born, Australia-raised musician Ray Chen.
Just 24 years old, Chen is a fast-rising star who has already won several major competitions, performed with orchestras, done concert tours, and released an album in 2011 confidently titled Virtuoso.
He’s studied with noted teachers in both the U.S. and Australia, including a couple of summers as a teenager at the Encore School of Strings in Hudson under David Cerone of the Cleveland Institute of Music. So there’ll probably be some friendly faces in the audience when he performs at CMA’s Gartner Auditorium, where he’ll be accompanied by another up-and-coming young musician, pianist Julio Elizalde.
The program includes Mozart’s Sonata in A major, Pablo de Sarasate’s “Habanera,” “Playera,” and Zigeunerweisen, and Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9.
Tickets are $29–$45
Photo by Uwe Arens